incredibly


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in·cred·i·ble

 (ĭn-krĕd′ə-bəl)
adj.
1. So implausible as to elicit disbelief; unbelievable: gave an incredible explanation of the cause of the accident.
2. Astonishing, extraordinary, or extreme: dressed with incredible speed.

[Middle English, from Latin incrēdibilis : in-, not; see in-1 + crēdibilis, believable; see credible.]

in·cred′i·bil′i·ty, in·cred′i·ble·ness n.
in·cred′i·bly adv.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adv.1.incredibly - not easy to believeincredibly - not easy to believe; "behind you the coastal hills plunge to the incredibly blue sea backed by the Turkish mountains"
credibly, plausibly, probably, believably - easy to believe on the basis of available evidence; "he talked plausibly before the committee"; "he will probably win the election"
2.incredibly - exceedingly; extremely; "she plays fabulously well"
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Translations
بِشَكْلٍ لا يُصَدَّق
neuvěřitelně
ótrúlega
neverjetno
inanılmaz şekilde

incredibly

[ɪnˈkredəblɪ] ADV
1. (= extremely) [ugly, rich, intelligent] → increíblemente
it all happened incredibly fasttodo sucedió con una rapidez increíble
2. (= amazingly) incredibly, they did not comepor increíble que parezca, no vinieron, aunque parezca mentira, no llegaron
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

incredibly

[ɪnˈkrɛdɪbli] adv
(= tremendously) [hard, good-looking, expensive] → incroyablement
(= strange to say) → chose incroyable
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

incredibly

advunglaublich, unwahrscheinlich; incredibly, he wasn’t thereunglaublicherweise war er nicht da
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

incredibly

[ɪnˈkrɛdəblɪ] advincredibilmente
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

incredible

(inˈkredəbl) adjective
1. hard to believe. He does an incredible amount of work.
2. impossible to believe; not credible. I found his story incredible.
inˈcredibly adverb
inˌcrediˈbility noun
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References in classic literature ?
That last stage of exhaustion, which to us is still incredibly remote, has become a present- day problem for the inhabitants of Mars.
And in an incredibly short time the Pontellier house was turned over to the artisans.
It was erected for the express purpose to which it is at present devoted, in the incredibly short period of one sun; and was dedicated to the immortal wooden idols by a grand festival, which lasted ten days and nights.
The man was upon one knee, his back in the angle of the wall, his shoulders elevated to the level of his ears, his hands before his face, palms outward, the fingers spread and crooked like claws; the white face turned upward on the retracted neck had an expression of unutterable fright, the mouth half open, the eyes incredibly expanded.
As Garrick, whom I regard in tragedy to be the greatest genius the world hath ever produced, sometimes condescends to play the fool; so did Scipio the Great, and Laelius the Wise, according to Horace, many years ago; nay, Cicero reports them to have been "incredibly childish." These, it is true, played the fool, like my friend Garrick, in jest only; but several eminent characters have, in numberless instances of their lives, played the fool egregiously in earnest; so far as to render it a matter of some doubt whether their wisdom or folly was predominant; or whether they were better intitled to the applause or censure, the admiration or contempt, the love or hatred, of mankind.
She danced out the side door, pulled a pink rose from a bush at the gate, and covered the mile between the brick house and the seat of learning in an incredibly short time, meeting Emma Jane, also breathless and resplendent, at the entrance.
The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled.
Both turned and faced the six or seven grotesque creatures, who stood there in the sunlight, solid, casting shadows, moving, and yet so incredibly unreal.
These happenings had occupied an incredibly short time, yet the youth felt that in them he had been made aged.
She remained unconscious for a time that seemed incredibly long to those that watched her, and the doctor, hurriedly sent for, did not come.
One would have thought that under the almost incredibly wretched conditions the Russian soldiers were in at that time- lacking warm boots and sheepskin coats, without a roof over their heads, in the snow with eighteen degrees of frost, and without even full rations
With that alertness of the senses which is at once the marvel and despair of civilised peoples, they knew that the pirates were on the island from the moment one of them trod on a dry stick; and in an incredibly short space of time the coyote cries began.